Assistant Logistics Manager

The Assistant Logistics Manager will play a key role within NHS Lanarkshire’s Procurement & Logistics Department through managing the day-to-day activity of the Logistics function. This function provides a Ward Product Management service across NHS Lanarkshire’s acute general hospitals, and the post holder will help deliver a service which meets customer needs and delivers goods effectively, at the right time, in the right place, and in the right quantity.

The Assistant Logistics Manager will provide direction and customer focus to Logistics staff involved in the Ward Product Management service, and actively liaise with Wards/ Departments to ensure that the service offered is optimal, with opportunities to improve the service identified and offered to customers. The post holder will also work to ensure that Logistics activity is aligned with and supports all procurement, commercial and contracting activity.

Working in partnership with staff across Procurement and Logistics, the role offers an excellent opportunity for the post holder to gain broad skills and experience beneficial to future professional development.

For informal enquiries regarding the post please contact:

Euan Erskine, General Manager (Procurement & Logistics), 07966 240232, or

Janice Wallace, Assistant General Manager (Logistics), 07789 651524.

For queries regarding the application form or recruitment process only , please contact jane.davies@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk stating the job title and reference number in the subject. Please note: all job related queries must be directed to the informal contact noted above.

Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.

‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

• Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

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